Other.....by balancing degree of risk from being closer to the front of a shelf/cabinet/counter vs ease of use of having favorites close to hand....so many of the nicest pieces are towards the back of the cabinet/shelf/counter, less likely for me or a small earthquake to topple them....

Karma, thanks for reminding me, I need to soak the ROCK, I guess I am not thinking about it right now (or trying not to) as I only have around 2 grams of sencha in the house.

Definitely by nation first. Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese ... all segregated. Then for Japanese, by region, and then by type. I think it would bother me any other way. This is likely as much about personality as anything else.

I've got all the teaware that I use regularly on one shelf. I'm planning to move my still-small puerh collection to a different cabinet, to free up space, so I'll have to decide if I should split up my teaware also. Right now the only teaware that's just for puerh is my small Tea Gallery gaiwan, so it's not a big issue yet.

In my cup this morning, the second day of drinking the malaysian-stored puerh from the OTTI. Now I'm thinking that 6 grams of puerh is enough to form an opinion, and I'm planning on buying a raft of samples from EOT.

An odd start to the TD, first TC was completely "down" followed by realization that there was a grand total of 2.25 grams of sencha in the house.

So lastly, Hagi watched the first tea of the day for the first time in around a year. Today, one of our TA's, GreenwoodStudio (Shawn's), beautiful new cups ... and the last of the sencha. Organic Sencha from Rishi with the Mrs.